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Westerns & the Old West
@davidlambertart.bsky.social
I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. 🍉

Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏

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R.I.P. Daniel Woodrell
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Tom Sizemore, born 64 years ago today
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Happy 71st Birthday to the great Joel Coen
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Fran Ryan, born 109 years ago today
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Yakima Canutt, born Enos Edward Canutt 130 years ago today
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Happy 75th Birthday to Ed Harris
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Happy 69th Birthday to William Fichtner
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Happy Birthday to Bat Masterson, born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson 172 years ago today
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Based on W.R. Burnett's Stretch Dawson (which was still unpublished by the time Yellow Sky was made)
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Jeffrey Hunter, born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr. 99 years ago today
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy Birthday to the late, great W.R. Burnett, born William Riley Burnett 126 years ago today
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This later inspires Ivan's final showdown with the police after he'd turned to a life of crime:
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff

In The Harder They Come, Cliff's character Ivan sees Sergio Corbucci's Django in a crowded Kingston theater...
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Happy 59th Birthday to Vincent Cassel, born Vincent Crochon
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Victor Jory, born 123 years ago today
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt 138 years ago today
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We don't really know the day or year Billy the Kid was born. Ash Upson & newspapers at the time claim he was born in New York, but that's not really certain either. Most historians agree that his birth name was Henry McCarty, so there's that
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Hey, it might be Billy the Kid's birthday today. According to Pat Garrett's book An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Billy was born on Nov 23, 1859. Unfortunately, Nov 23 was the birthday of Garrett's ghostwriter Ash Upson, who really loved to just make shit up...
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Happy 84th Birthday to Franco Nero, born Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Happy 60th Birthday to Mads Mikkelsen
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Robert Vaughn, born 93 years ago today
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Geraldine Page, born 101 years ago today
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Hoagy Carmichael, born Hoagland Howard Carmichael 126 years ago today
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I know that kind of ends things on a sour note, so just take solace in the fact that the price of eggs has never fluctuated ever again.

The end.

Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Eventually, San Francisco's chicken population recovered, essentially ending any more murre egging on the Farallones. The murres didn't bounce back as well as the chickens, though.

After decades of egging, their population had dwindled by 95%...
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM